Gran Turismo 5, Sony’s big white hope for 2010 and set to be the biggest, baddest driving simulator ever created, is also going to be touting one of the biggest, baddest hard drive install sizes, too. If you thought that sitting through 25 minutes of Devil May Cry was tortuous, Dante’s got nothing on a GTR.
Series head Kazunori Yamauchi tweeted over the weekend that whilst gamers could get away with a 256 megabyte install size, it’s going to need you to dedicate an optional 10 gigabyte if you can spare the room, presumably to reduce load times and store DLC.
Yep, that’s one hell of an install, which Yamauchi claims will make the experience ‘comfortable’. For those with 40 gigabyte hard drives that’s going to be something of a commitment, for sure, but it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given that the relatively bite-sized GT 5 Prologue sapped six gigabytes anyway.
What’s TSA’s readership think about this? Is this revelation a shock to anyone? Does anyone else think that ‘comfortable’ is a wee bit vague, and there’s likely to be even more hard drive real estate at risk if you want to be ‘well off’?
We’ll find out soon enough.
3shirts
Since I have a media center PC hooked up the the same telly, I have not needed to use storage on my PS3 for anything other than games. I upgraded to a 120Gb shortly after buying the console (a 60Gb launch model) and still have plenty of space.
It is optional but I get the feeling that the 10Gb ‘comfortable’ install is a bit like the ‘minimum spec’ of a PC game.
3shirts
I checked my HDD space last night and was down to 30Gb. I went through the game data folder deleting a bunch of rentals or old games I’ll never play again and managed to liberate a further 60Gb! Woop
TheJoker
I just recently upgraded to a 500Gb HDD so I got problem with the install….
MiguelX69
Not Only the 40GB’s, but also the 80’s. Mine is an 80GB PS3 and I have at the moment 7GB free… Thing is I sold something like 10 games… if it weren’t for that I’d alreaddy filled all the space.
But I will have to find some form of having those 10GB for GT5… It reduces the loadings and it reduces the disk readings so the drive is not used so frequently. And believe, in a game like this, with only 256MB of install, our drive will fry.
MiguelX69
I meant “your drive will fry”, not “our drive will fry”. Sorry for that!
Awayze
My 60GB PS3 HDD got full last year, low memory warnings kept coming up and in the old 60GB PS3’s, new Sata 2 HDD’s cause start up problems unless you have a Seagate HDD with a jumper installed limiting it to 1.5gb/s, which fixed it for me.
Since then I got a Slim 250GB but preferred the phat shape and impossible to find a working PS3 60GB cheap so I sold the Slim and got an 80GB PS3 and upgraded that to 320GB…lol
Waiting for the White Slim or that LE Blue GT5 version O_O